Two people have died after a Boeing 747 cargo aircraft collided with a ground vehicle and plunged into the sea while landing at Hong Kong International Airport, and an expert has weighed in on what may have gone wrong.

The cargo flight, which had arrived from Dubai and was being operated for Emirates by a Turkish airline, reportedly struck a car on the tarmac before veering off the runway in the early hours of Monday morning.

Vision from the scene shows the aircraft partially submerged with its tail section snapped off.

All four crew members survived and were taken to hospital for assessment.

Aviation expert and former commercial pilot Captain Byron Bailey told Sky News his theory as to what may have gone wrong.

“At first it appeared, and I looked at the map, that they had struck a ve

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